Classics 2902 - Test 1 Ques ons and answers | Updated
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banausic prejudice
Prejudice (and the looking down upon of) cra smen, doctors, and all who had to work with
their hands by elite members of Greek society
miasma
"stain, pollu on"
greeks saw this as divine
blood is a good example (greeks saw it as a pollu ng stain)
Demigourgoi
"men who work for the people" (Cra smen)
eg. doctors
Hippocrates
"Father of medicine"
- 5th c BCE (born around 460s, died around 375-351 BCE)
- Was men oned by Plato in 430s
- Born island of Cos; later moved to Thessaly
- Has Asclepiad family connec on (rela on to healing god)
iatros
physician
"offer health advice and healing"
No clear/definite defini ons of the profession
Empedocles of Acragas
490 to 430 BC; Remembered as the author of the four element theory of ma;er (earth, air, fire,
and water).
Democritus of Abdera
4 60 to 380 BCE formalized the earliest atomic theory
Alemaeon of Croton
, (early fi h century BCE) seems to have made some of the earliest anatomical observa ons of
the op c nerves and of the passages between the nasal and ear cavi es
Anaxagoras of clazomenae
fi h century BCE) devised a theory that all things were made up of an infinite number of kinds
of invisible "seeds" in order to explain how food could be transformed into other things, such as
hair and fingernails: the seeds of these kinds of ma;er were digested and recons tuted in new
forms
Pneuma
the medium that transmi;ed sensa ons from the brain to other parts of the body.
Pythagoras
570-495 BCE; believed that the soul was divinity trapped in the body and that the soul could
escape cycles of reincarna on only through prac ces that enhanced one's spiritual and physical
purity
Plato
(430-347 BCE) theorized that the human body was made by a cosmic deity called the demiurge
He believed the body was made up of the fourth elements: air water earth and firee
advanced the view that the soul was divided into three parts: the ra onal or reasoning part
(brain), the spir- ited or emo onal part (heart), and the appe ve or nutri ve part (liver).
Theophrastus
372-287 BCE wrote some of thefirst texts on the medical proper es of plants
Diodes of carystus
wrote trea ses on physi- ology, pharmacology, and regimen
Herophilus of Chalcedon
achieved significant breakthroughs in the field anatomy of the eye, brain, and liver and vascular,
reproduc ve, and nervous systems discovered f fallopian tubes and ovaries
Erasistratus of Ceos
fourth and third centuries BCE) Father of Physiology
Marduk
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banausic prejudice
Prejudice (and the looking down upon of) cra smen, doctors, and all who had to work with
their hands by elite members of Greek society
miasma
"stain, pollu on"
greeks saw this as divine
blood is a good example (greeks saw it as a pollu ng stain)
Demigourgoi
"men who work for the people" (Cra smen)
eg. doctors
Hippocrates
"Father of medicine"
- 5th c BCE (born around 460s, died around 375-351 BCE)
- Was men oned by Plato in 430s
- Born island of Cos; later moved to Thessaly
- Has Asclepiad family connec on (rela on to healing god)
iatros
physician
"offer health advice and healing"
No clear/definite defini ons of the profession
Empedocles of Acragas
490 to 430 BC; Remembered as the author of the four element theory of ma;er (earth, air, fire,
and water).
Democritus of Abdera
4 60 to 380 BCE formalized the earliest atomic theory
Alemaeon of Croton
, (early fi h century BCE) seems to have made some of the earliest anatomical observa ons of
the op c nerves and of the passages between the nasal and ear cavi es
Anaxagoras of clazomenae
fi h century BCE) devised a theory that all things were made up of an infinite number of kinds
of invisible "seeds" in order to explain how food could be transformed into other things, such as
hair and fingernails: the seeds of these kinds of ma;er were digested and recons tuted in new
forms
Pneuma
the medium that transmi;ed sensa ons from the brain to other parts of the body.
Pythagoras
570-495 BCE; believed that the soul was divinity trapped in the body and that the soul could
escape cycles of reincarna on only through prac ces that enhanced one's spiritual and physical
purity
Plato
(430-347 BCE) theorized that the human body was made by a cosmic deity called the demiurge
He believed the body was made up of the fourth elements: air water earth and firee
advanced the view that the soul was divided into three parts: the ra onal or reasoning part
(brain), the spir- ited or emo onal part (heart), and the appe ve or nutri ve part (liver).
Theophrastus
372-287 BCE wrote some of thefirst texts on the medical proper es of plants
Diodes of carystus
wrote trea ses on physi- ology, pharmacology, and regimen
Herophilus of Chalcedon
achieved significant breakthroughs in the field anatomy of the eye, brain, and liver and vascular,
reproduc ve, and nervous systems discovered f fallopian tubes and ovaries
Erasistratus of Ceos
fourth and third centuries BCE) Father of Physiology
Marduk
